Pregnancy is not a disease, ..but #trumpcare will list as such....

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Pregnancy is not a disease, says @matthewwalther: http://bit.ly/2tcLcoY

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Matthew Walther

June 26, 2017


About once a week, I have to dump a half gallon of cold water on my face and remind myself that in this country pregnancy is considered a disease.

Only seven years ago, this grotesque perspective was maintained by health insurance companies, who were free to deny coverage to expectant mothers or "women likely to become pregnant" (whatever that means) with impunity the way they would a heavy smoker. It's nice to know that the Republican paste-up job revision of the Affordable Care Act will probably not set us back in this regard. PREO-#OBAMACARE

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's unwillingness to participate in the legal fiction that what we call "health insurance" is, like flood or auto insurance, some kind of scheme that guarantees compensation in the event of a catastrophe rather than the only way millions of people are able to receive care, is most welcome. It even looks possible that women who would not have been eligible for treatment under Medicaid before the Obama-era expansion will be able to hold on to their coverage. Yay.

But the necessary — I will not stoop to calling a step so blinkeringly obvious and morally necessary "humane" — revision of the law governing the provision of medical insurance has not changed the view of Americans on the right and the left, who see the miracle of birth as at best an unfortunate if not quite wholly unjustifiable expense and at worst an easily preventable illness.

[TeapotInATempest]

1. If pregnancy is a disease

Then, as with any disease, women have the right to seek to prevent it (birth control) or cure it (abortion), and Republicans don't want them to have access to those, either.

[LonePirate]

2. So Repubs will support preventive measures (sex ed) and disease ending methods (abortion) now?

That's the only conclusion I can reach if people believe preposterous things like pregnancy being a disease.

[virgogal]

3. Who,exactly, said pregnancy was a disease?

I've never seen or heard that.